Saturday, November 3, 2012

I suppose I should try to feign disappointment, even though I'm pleased that it's raining. "Oh darn and drat, it's raining today and so I'll have to put off doing all those boring garden jobs I had on my list for today - like trimming the hedges."Reeks with insincerity, doesn't it? Yes I am pleased. And it's great to have the garden naturally watered by Hughie the Rain God. There really is something extra in rainwater than tap water doesn't offer. Plants just launch ahead in growth after a rainy day.And so I have limited myself to soggy day pottering, pulling weeds foolish enough to show themselves, taking photos of raindrops on foliage... you know, soggy day lazy stuff.

Raindrops on my Tiger Grass. Click on this photo to make itcome up bigger on screen and you can see its fine green riblets.

Here's a job lazy bones could do: thin out the lamb's lettuce(ie corn salad, mâche) seedlings to give the remaining onesroom to spread. This wide shallow pot should only have 4-6 plants here, and at the moment it looks like 46.

So glad to see the Thai lime happy. Nothingto do here, just move right along, folks...

Tomato Numero Uno is coming into full colour now, all thatis wrong is its shape. It's meant to be an egg-shaped Romatomato, and it looks more like an oversized cherry. Most ofthe others are egg-shaped. The first few aren't.

The NSW Christmas bush is starting to lay on the festivecolour a month ahead of schedule, as it does every year.

And popping up over the fence is myneighbour Nick's Justicia Carnea, doing whatit does so well this time every year. This isthe ideal lazy gardener's flower, as I don'tplant it, water it, worry about or prune it.But I do get to enjoy it all the same. Thanks Nick!

So, when the sun comes out so might I, but right now I have books to read, cups of tea to drink and a bit of feet-up rest to enjoy. Can't work in the garden all the time. As far as I am concerned, just sitting out there, doing nothing but enjoying the garden on a rainy day is still gardening! In fact it's one of the best bits.